Yoon Bo-hyun

Bo Hyun Yoon
Bo Hyun Yoon
	윤보현 교수
Born	Seoul, Republic of Korea
Nationality	Korea
Alma mater	Seoul National University(MD, PhD)
Known for	Prematurity and fetal damage (Maternal Fetal Medicine)
Awards	1993 the First Paper Prize Award of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine 1994 Gwanghye Prize from Korean Medical Association 1995 Certificate of the Prize for Outstanding Thesis from the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies 1995 The Best Paper Award from the Korean Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology 1996 Awards for Research Excellence of the International Society for Perinatal Obstetricians 1999 Awards for Research Excellence of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine 1999 The Best Researcher Award from the Seoul National University Hospital 2009 Namyang Academic Award from the Korean Society of Perinatology 2012 Bumsuk Prize from Bumsuk Academic Scholarship Foundation 2012 Prize of the Korea Science & Technology Award(the Korea S & T Award)
	Scientific career
Fields	Department of Medicine
Institutions	Seoul National University

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Bo Hyun Yoon was born and grew up at Seoul, the capital of Republic of Korea. He graduated from Seoul National University Medical College in 1979.

Education

Dr. Yoon was born and grew up at Seoul, the capital of Republic of Korea. He graduated from Seoul National University Medical College in 1979. He did training in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of that Medical College, and joined the faculty there from 1988 until the present.

Work

Dr. Yoon’s work focused on “intrauterine infection/inflammation, prematurity and fetal damage”, which is one of the most important challenges to Medicine. Cerebral palsy is a serious motor disorder which frequently appears in preterm newborn babies, and has been traditionally linked to hypoxic obstetric events. However, many studies demonstrated a limited role for birth hypoxia in the etiology of cerebral palsy. From 1996, Yoon and colleagues provided strong clinical and experimental evidence that intrauterine infection/inflammation, which is causally linked to preterm birth, plays an important role in the pathogenesis of fetal brain damage and cerebral palsy.[1-5].Moreover, they demonstrated that in trauterine infection/inflammation is an important risk factor for the development of bronch opulmonarydys plasiawhichis one of them ost frequent and significant complications of preterm new borns.[6][7]These have important implications because the twom ost important complications of preterm new borns, cerebralpalsy and bronchopul monarydysplasia, seem to be in itiated before birth in some, and can be prevented and treated from in utero. Over the last twenty years, Yoon and his colleagues have published a number of important articles in the area of preterm births, intra-amniotic infection/inflammation and fetal damage. His papers have been cited extensively in the literature, making his H-index 56 as of September 2013. [8]He invented MMP-8 be dside test which identifies intra- amnioticin fection/inflammat ion in patient sat risk for preterm birth[9][10] Heandhisco-workers have applied the results of his investigation to clinical fields. For example, The out come sof preterm neonates who were born in SeoulNationalUniversity Hospital have been improved notice ablysince they actively diagnose dand treate dintrauterine infection with new regimen of anti biotics they developed.

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